Milton Babbitt - List of Compositions

List of Compositions

• 1935 Generatrix for orchestra (unfinished)
• 1939–41 String Trio
• 1940 Composition for String Orchestra (unfinished)
• 1941 Symphony (unfinished)
• 1941 Music for the Mass I for mixed chorus
• 1942 Music for the Mass II for mixed chorus
• 1946 Fabulous Voyage (musical, libretto by Richard Koch)
• 1946 Three Theatrical Songs for voice and piano (taken from Fabulous Voyage)
• 1947 Three Compositions for Piano
• 1948 Composition for Four Instruments
• 1948 String Quartet No. 1 (withdrawn)
• 1948 Composition for Twelve Instruments
• 1949 Into the Good Ground film music (withdrawn)
• 1950 Composition for Viola and Piano
• 1951 The Widow’s Lament in Springtime for soprano and piano
• 1951 Du for soprano and piano, August Stramm
• 1953 Woodwind Quartet
• 1954 String Quartet No. 2
• 1954 Vision and Prayer for soprano and piano
• 1955 Two Sonnets for baritone, clarinet, viola, and cello, two poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
• 1956 Duet for piano
• 1956 Semi-Simple Variations for piano
• 1957 All Set for jazz ensemble (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet, trombone, contrabass, piano, vibraphone, and percussion) (Anon. n.d.)
• 1957 Partitions for piano
• 1960 Sounds and Words for soprano and piano
• 1960 Composition for Tenor and Six Instruments
• 1961 Composition for Synthesizer
• 1961 Vision and Prayer for soprano and synthesized tape, setting of a poem by Dylan Thomas

Second Period

• 1964 Philomel for soprano, recorded soprano, synthesized tape, setting of a poem by John Hollander
• 1964 Ensembles for Synthesizer
• 1965 Relata I for orchestra
• 1966 Post-Partitions for piano
• 1966 Sextets for violin and piano
• 1967 Correspondences for string orchestra and synthesized tape
• 1968 Relata II for orchestra
• 1968–69 Four Canons for SA
• 1969 Phonemena for soprano and piano
• 1970 String Quartet No. 3
• 1970 String Quartet No. 4
• 1968–71 Occasional Variations for synthesized tape
• 1972 Tableaux for piano
• 1974 Arie da capo for five instrumentalists
• 1975 Reflections for piano and synthesized tape
• 1975 Phonemena for soprano and synthesized tape
• 1976 Concerti for violin, small orchestra, synthesized tape
• 1977 A Solo Requiem for soprano and two pianos
• 1977 Minute Waltz (or 3/4 ± 1/8) for piano
• 1977 Playing for Time for piano
• 1978 My Ends Are My Beginnings for solo clarinet
• 1978 My Complements to Roger for piano
• 1978 More Phonemena for twelve-part chorus
• 1979 An Elizabethan Sextette for six-part women’s chorus
• 1979 Images for saxophonist and synthesized tape
• 1979 Paraphrases for ten instrumentalists
• 1980 Dual for cello and piano

Third Period

• 1981 Ars Combinatoria for small orchestra
• 1981 Don for four-hand piano
• 1982 The Head of the Bed for soprano and four instruments
• 1982 String Quartet No. 5
• 1982 Melismata for solo violin
• 1982 About Time for piano
• 1983 Canonical Form for piano
• 1983 Groupwise for flautist and four instruments
• 1984 Four Play for four players
• 1984 It Takes Twelve to Tango for piano
• 1984 Sheer Pluck (composition for guitar)
• 1985 Concerto for piano and orchestra
• 1985 Lagniappe for piano
• 1986 Transfigured Notes for string orchestra
• 1986 The Joy of More Sextets for piano and violin
• 1987 Three Cultivated Choruses for four-part chorus
• 1987 Fanfare for double brass sextet
• 1987 Overtime for piano
• 1987 Souper for speaker and ensemble
• 1987 Homily for snare drum
• 1987 Whirled Series for saxophone and piano
• 1988 In His Own Words for speaker and piano
• 1988 The Virginal Book for contralto and piano, setting of a poem by John Hollander
• 1988 Beaten Paths for solo marimba
• 1988 Glosses for Boys’ Choir
• 1988 The Crowded Air for eleven instruments
• 1989 Consortini for five players
• 1989 Play It Again, Sam for solo viola
• 1989 Emblems (Ars Emblematica), for piano
• 1989 Soli e duettini for two guitars
• 1989 Soli e duettini for flute and guitar
• 1990 Soli e duettini for violin and viola
• 1990 Envoi for four hands, piano
• 1991 Preludes, Interludes, and Postlude for piano
• 1991 Four Cavalier Settings for tenor and guitar
• 1991 Mehr "Du” for soprano, viola and piano
• 1991 None but the Lonely Flute for solo flute
• 1992 Septet, But Equal
• 1992 Counterparts for brass quintet
• 1993 Around the Horn for solo horn
• 1993 Quatrains for soprano and two clarinets
• 1993 Fanfare for All for brass quintet
• 1993 String Quartet No. 6
• 1994 Triad for viola, clarinet, and piano
• 1994 No Longer Very Clear for soprano and four instruments, setting of a poem by John Ashbery
• 1994 Tutte le corde for piano
• 1994 Arrivals and Departures for two violins
• 1994 Accompanied Recitative for soprano sax and piano
• 1995 Manifold Music for organ
• 1995 Bicenguinguagenary Fanfare for brass quintet
• 1995 Quartet for piano and string trio
• 1996 Quintet for clarinet and string quartet
• 1996 Danci for solo guitar
• 1996 When Shall We Three Meet Again? for flute, clarinet and vibraphone
• 1998 Piano Concerto No. 2
• 1998 The Old Order Changeth for piano
• 1999 Composition for One Instrument for celesta
• 1999 Allegro Penseroso for piano
• 1999 Concerto Piccolino for vibraphone
• 2000 Little Goes a Long Way for violin and piano
• 2000 Pantuns for soprano and piano
• 2001 A Lifetime or So for tenor and piano
• 2002 From the Psalter soprano and string orchestra
• 2002 Now Evening after Evening for soprano and piano, setting of a poem by Derek Walcott
• 2003 Swan Song No. 1 for flute, oboe, violin, cello, and two guitars
• 2003 A Waltzer in the House for soprano and vibraphone, setting of a poem by Stanley Kunitz
• 2004 Concerti for Orchestra, for James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
• 2004 Autobiography of the Eye for soprano and cello, setting of a poem by Paul Auster
• 2005–6 More Melismata for solo cello
• 2006 An Encore for violin & piano